The Race Changed My Life

“The World Race Changed My Life” what an extreme statement to make and honestly it’s true. But, with that statement comes other truths. If the World Race didn’t change my life God would have used something else too. I am so grateful to God for using the Race as a vessel to set a fire within me. And the real truth is “JESUS CHANGED MY LIFE”.

As my squad is wrapping up our last ministry week and we are taking time to process the end of this season, I really cannot imagine my life continuing on the way it was. The girl who stepped on the plane to Gainesville, Georgia on January 3rd is not going to be the same girl stepping off the plane in Denver on June 23rd, and boy am I grateful for that.  

Jesus redeemed the lies I believed about myself that I was a person who did not belong in a large group of people, that I didn’t have a place. He showed me that none of the labels I had come to except to be just personality traits are true. In fact, they were just boxes I had put myself in and put God in. I believed that I was awkward, unable to give wisdom to others believing I had a lack of knowledge, I carried my failures and burdens so heavily on my back that It was stunting my growth in Christ. 

 

But when I gave myself the time to hear what God thinks of me I can proudly say that :  

I am a bold woman of God who walks in her authority, who says the hard things, fights for people to feel heard, works hard, lives out her passions and understands that her failures do not define her. 

I am a work in progress and this is just the beginning. 

 

The race hasn’t just been a trip to find myself or God, it has been my life these last 6 months. I have gone grocery shopping, built friendships, found semi-permanent homes,  cooked dinner for myself,  gotten haircuts, celebrated life and even mourned the end of some. I had massive failures at points and some amazing breakthroughs at others. And this season doesn’t end just because the Race ends. I will continue to step out as a radical follower of Jesus. Just because the Race stops does not mean the Gospel stops.